it was to be Frida – perhaps one of the 20th century’s greatest artists. In this essay I will focus on her most repeated theme “pain” and examine how the theme is presented in the painting “The Broken Column”. She went through tremendous emotional and physical pain during her lifetime, in which she managed to express through art. In 1925, when she was a young medical student, she was riding a bus that collided with a tram. A metal handrail pierced her abdomen, exciting through her vagina. Her
were in at the given moment of injury. They may remember what they were thinking at that moment. They could be thinking about how that pain could have been avoided, or how much it's going to hurt later. Thoughts could be going through their head that we could not even begin to conceptualize even if they tried to tell us what happened through their
You probably took a glance at the title and assumed that this will be one of the worst personal essays known to man. You probably think that all I’m going to do is tell you who I am, my personal interest, and why I desire to go to college. Well I’m sorry to excite you, but I can’t tell you those things; simply because I do not know those things myself. Now let me explain. All my life I did not know what I wanted to be or who I wanted to be. I attempted to start my own path in life and failed dramatically
In the painting Chairman at Shaoshan (1992), artist Yu Youhan decorated the Mao’s figure with blossoms around him. Critic Li Xianting, who coined the term Chinese political pop in his academic essay in 1992, concluded that the style of decoration in the painting was inspired by traditional folk art posters that Chinese people liked to hang up on the walls . The metaphor here referred to the uniformed social system and aesthetical standard in China